workers' council
Employee governing body
A workers' council is a body of elected employee representatives that participates in workplace governance, typically negotiating with management on conditions, wages, and policies.
The term carries socialist and labor movement associations, evoking factory committees in revolutionary contexts: The workers' council voted to occupy the plant.
In some European countries, workers' councils are legally mandated in larger companies.
- guild socialismWorker-controlled industry ideology
- committeeAppointed group for duties
- unionJoining into one
- delegateEntrust authority to another
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
wage negotiation · grievance procedure · arbitration · soviet · factory floor · self-governance · employee ownership · collective action · general assembly · strike · bylaws · labor movement · labor rights · trade unionism · mediation · chairperson · voting system · elected representative
workers' councilmanagement hierarchy
Ranked authority within organizations
board of directors · executive committee · corporate management · corporate leadership · C-suite
workers' councilplutocracy
Rule by the rich
corporate governance · private enterprise · top-down management · corporation · command economy
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